History and Description of Woburn and Its Abbey, Etc. EtcLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831 - 320 pages |
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abbot Admiral afterwards Alto-rilievo Ampthill ancient annum antique appears appointed arches Aspley Baron Barony of Bedford Battlesden beautiful Bedfordshire Brickhill Bust carucates castle celebrated centre chancel chapel character Charles Cheneys church contains countenance Countess Countess of Bedford crown Cupid daughter death died dress Duchess Duchess of Bedford Duke of Bedford Dunstable Earl of Bedford east Edward Elizabeth England erected flowers four gallery George gold Gordon Grace half length handsome head Henry honour Hugh de Bolebec Huntley James King king's Knight Lady land late Leighton lofty London Lord Russell Lord William Russell manor marble Marquis married monastery noble ornamented painted parish pearls pleasing portrait possession present Psyche Queen reign rent and farms robes sculpture Sir John Sir William south side style Thomas Toddington tower town truncated column vase Wavendon whole length wife William Russell Woburn Abbey
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Page 299 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 87 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 304 - WAKEN, lords and ladies gay, On the mountain dawns the day, All the jolly chase is here, With hawk, and horse, and hunting-spear ! Hounds are in their couples yelling, Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling, Merrily, merrily, mingle they,
Page 225 - Tuscan came my lady's worthy race, Fair Florence was sometime her ancient seat, The western isle whose pleasant shore doth face Wild Camber's cliffs did give her lively heat; Fostered she was with milk of Irish breast, Her sire an earl, her dame of princes' blood; From tender years in Britain she doth rest With king's child, where she tasteth costly food.
Page 12 - Ovid's metamorphoses were exhibited in confectionary ; and the splendid iceing of an immense historic plum-cake was embossed with a delicious basso-relievo of the destruction of Troy. In the afternoon, when she condescended to walk in the garden, the lake was covered with Tritons and Nereids ; the pages of the family were converted into Wood-nymphs who peeped from every bower ; and the footmen gamboled over the lawns in the figure of Satyrs.
Page 299 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast— The desert and illimitable airLone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Page 183 - ... next came the Queen (in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told), very majestic ; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant ; her nose a little hooked, her lips narrow, and her teeth black ; she had in her ears two pearls, with very rich drops ; she wore false hair, and that red...
Page 299 - Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet, on my heart Deeply has sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.
Page 304 - Diamonds on the brake are gleaming : And foresters have busy been, To track the buck in thicket green ; Now we come to chant our lay, "Waken, lords and ladies gay.
Page 183 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness; instead of a chain she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels.